Hello, Steam players! We at Crystal Empire Games have not been idle since the last official patch 1.2 was released. In fact, we've built and released over a dozen beta patches on the Paradox forums in the last dozen years. But until now, the only way to acquire a beta patch was to download a zipped file from our website and extract it manually. But as of today, 1.3 beta patches will be available in a Steam beta channel! [b]To receive the current beta patch:[/b] Open your steam library, find "For the Glory: A Europa Universalis Game" in the list of your games, then right click on it and select "Properties". In the Properties, select the "Beta" tab and select "1.3_beta_sep_2024" in the dropdown. For those of you who didn't know about the forum patch releases, here's a PARTIAL list of highlights since 1.2:

• Fixed many, many crashes and multiplayer out-of-sync issues
• Added around 10 new mapmodes
• Completely revamped rebels with new factions and differing goals
• Many brand-new UI interactions, including new notifiers and an all-new Holy Roman Empire interface
• Improved AI
• A huge number of new modding/scripting features
• Increased maximum playable resolution from 1920x1080 to 2560x1440 (2k)
• Extended timeline from 1419-1819 to 1399-1837
• Four brand-new historical scenarios (1399, 1453, 1546, and 1816), two of which take advantage of the extended timeline
• Two new fantasy scenarios - build your empire through colonization and warfare, but watch out for the invasion of Atlantis!
• Complete overhaul of all existing scenarios for improved balance and historical accuracy
• Dozens of new countries to play, form, or revolt
• Formable countries can now be formed by player-driven decisions - you can see exactly what you need to form Russia rather than having to look up an event
• Hundreds of new historical events, leaders, and monarchs
• Hundreds of new pictures for historical events
• New map colorscale options (see the Settings screen in game)
• Reduced randomization of combat
• Updated the bundled AGCEEP mod to 1.60, including many updates that take advantage of new 1.3 modding features

This is not even all of the highlights, let alone the minor bugfixes and polishing - you'll have to play the game to see what else is new! (and... stay tuned, you might see the final 1.3 patch coming on a special day!)